"Well you are right about Roe, but I dont think you realize how big brussels review is.
1) Common Currency
2) Bogus budget, with the UK getting hosed for Ag subsidies
3) Poland pressured to let certain groups march deemed a menace by the local gov.
4) France pressured to have polish plumbers when she does not want them
The elites in euroland are far, far more advanced than they are here and you have more brussels review."
Brussels did not impose any of these things.
It can't.
France voted to join the Euro.
The EU budget is negotiated between the parties, but funded by the TVA. France sets its TVA based on the vote of Parliament. The British have in the past chosen to accept the EU budget, most of which goes to the PAC (the common agricultural policy), because they think they get more out of the EU than they lose.
Poland may be pressured, but if Poland said "No", there is no enforcement mechanism of the EU.
Ah, the famous "plombier polonais".
France voted to accept Maastrict and the Treaty of Rome. France negotiated these treaties, with the free flow of labor contained them. Clearly the policy was not thought out well, especially with expansion. Still, there was no IMPOSITION on France, or any other country, of any of these things. Britain voted not to join the Euro. France disregarded Brussels on the import of British beef. No country had to join the EU. Their people and elected Parliaments voted to do so.
Now, I understand that you do not like some of these policies, but these policies were accepted democratically by the people of France and their elected governments.
Yes, the elites of France and Europe mostly do support these things, but the democracy allowed them to have their way. With the referendum, the democracy rejected the next step as going to far.
Certainly the American people will reject and oppose this decision about taking houses by the Supreme Court, and yet despite the huge opposition, it will be the law of the United States, because the elite US Supreme Court is the most powerful institution in the United States, and there is no check on it that has been exercised in America since the 1860s.
The bureaucrats in Brussels do not have the power to command. The US Supreme Court does.
You are a really thoughtfull guy.
But the UK and Benelux pay disproportionate amount of taxes to fund ag subsidies and project in Spain and greece. That is why Blair (no conservative) and Chirac blew up at each other over the UKs 'rebate'.
In addition to ag subsidies france.